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Rocky Mountain National Park THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK Photograph by Wiswall DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary a g 2 7, 1 44 1 t < °: 0 -g £ -a o f 2 o -1 - H 60 D a O v> 7, £ T| Pkotoirafh by H. T. Cowling FALL RIVER ENTRANCE TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK 2 £ 0 a «^ ys "TOP OF THE WORLD" O a 7 PH Q w OR many years the Mecca of Eastern mountain lovers has been the 2 -2 I Rockies. For many years the name has summed European ideas to > ] of American mountain grandeur. Yet it was not until 1915 that £2 "o p< .a I a particular section of the enormous area of magnificent and diver­ 60 sified scenic range thus designated was chosen as the representative of the no­ < - blest qualities of the whole. This is the Rocky Mountain National Park. * S And it is splendidly representative. In nobility, in calm dignity, in the £ -£ sheer glory of stalwart beauty, there is no mountain group to excel the company His « a of snow-capped veterans of all the ages which stands at everlasting parade CO 1- < o behind its grim, helmeted captain, Longs Peak. a -B a a There is probably no other scenic neighborhood of the first order which com­ 1- .3 _a bines mountain outlines so bold with a quality of beauty so intimate and refined. 1 § Just to live in the valleys in the eloquent and ever-changing presence of these v. LL, carved and tinted peaks is itself satisfaction. But to climb into their embrace, •St uw =q to know them in the intimacy of their bare summits and their flowered, glaciated 1 gorges, is to turn a new and unforgettable page in experience. g The park straddles the continental divide at a point of supreme magnificence. to Its eastern gateway is beautiful Estes Park, a valley village of many hotels from to which access up to the most noble heights and into the most picturesque recesses O of the Rockies is easy and comfortable. Its western entrance is Grand Lake. Photograph by II. T. Cowling Photograph by II. T. Cowling ODESSA LAKE IS ALMOST ENCIRCLED BY SNOW-SPATTERED SUMMITS SPRUCE-GIRDLED FERN LAKE, SHOWING LITTLE MATTERHORN IN MIDDLE DISTANCE Photograph by John King Sherman THE CHISELED WESTERN WALL OF LOCH VALE PRECIPICE-WALLED GORGES DISTINGUISHED fea­ ture of the park is its profusion of cliff-cradled, glacier-watered valleys unexcelled for wildness and the glory of their flowers. Here grandeur and romantic beauty compete. These valleys lie in two groups, one north, the other south of Longs Peak, in the angles of the main range; the northern group called the Wild Garden, the southern group called the Wild Basin. There are few spots, for instance, so impressively beautiful as Loch Vale, with its three shelved lakes lying three thousand feet sheer be­ low Taylor's Peak. Adjoining is Glacier Gorge at the foot of the precipitous north slope of Longs Peak, holding in rocky embrace its own group of three lakelets. The Wild Basin, with its wealth Photograph by John King Sherman of lake and precipice, still remains FEW MOUNTAIN GORGES ARE SO IMPRESSIVELY BEAUTIFUL AS LOCH VALE CHASM LAKE AND LONGS PEAK unexploited and known to few. LOOKING INTO THE PARK FROM THE TWIN SISTERS LATE AFTERNOON YIELDS GOOD CATCHES Photograph by Agnes IF. Faille LONGS PEAK, FROM A SMALL LAKE AT THE ENTRANCE TO GLACIER GORGE, SHOWING ITS PRECFFTTOUS WESTERN SIDE Photograph by J. Burns Photograph by II. T. Cox-ling ICE FLOES BREAKING FROM THE HALLETT GLACIER ICEBERG LAKE LIES 2,000 FEET BELOW TRAIL RIDGE Photograph by II. T. Coaling To KNOW THEM IN THE INTIMACY OF THEIR BARE SUMMITS IS T© TURN AN UNFORGETTABLE PAGE IN THE BOOK OF EXPERIENCE Looking from Flattop across the Tyndall Glacier Gorge to the windy summit of Hallett Peak MIDWAY OF THE RANGE, LONGS PEAK REARS HIS STATELY, SQUARE-CROWNED HEAD; A VERITABLE KING OF MOUNTAINS CALMLY OVERLOOKING ALL HIS REALM This is the very heart of the Rockies; few photographs so fully express the spirit of the Snowy Range THE KING AND HIS KINGDOM HE Snowy Range lies, roughly speaking, north and south. From valleys 8,000 feet high, the peaks rise from 12,000 to 14,000 feet. Longs Peak measures 14,255 feet. The gentler slopes are on the west, a region of loveliness, heavily wooded, diversified by gloriously modeled mountain masses, and wa­ tered by many streams and rock-bound lakes. The western entrance, Grand Lake, is a thriv­ ing center of hotel and cottage life. On the east side the descent from the con­ tinental divide is steep in the extreme. Preci­ pices two or three thousand feet plunging into gorges carpeted with snow patches and wild flowers are common. Seen from the east-side Photograph by George II. Ilarecy villages, this range rises in daring relief, craggy GRAND LAKE FROM THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE in outline, snow-spattered, awe-inspiring. Midway of the range and standing boldly forward from its western side, Longs Peak rears his lofty, square-crowned head. A veri­ table King of Mountains—stalwart, majestic. Amazingly diversified is this favored region. The valleys are checkered with broad, flowery opens and luxuriant groves of white- stemmed aspens and dark-leaved pines. Sing­ ing rivers and shining lakes abound. Frost- sculptured granite cliffs assume picturesque shapes. Always some group of peaks has caught and held the wandering clouds. Very different are the mountain vistas. From the heights stretches on every hand a tumbled sea of peaks. Dark gorges open un­ derfoot. Massive granite walls torn from their fastenings in some unimaginable upheaval in ages before man impose their gray faces. Far in the distance lie patches of molten silver which are lakes, and threads of silver which are rivers, and mists which conceal far-off val­ leys. On sunny days lies to the east a dim Photograph by II. T. Cowling Photograph by linos Milts CACHE LA POUDRE VALLEY AT FOOT OF SPECIMEN MOUNTAIN MOUNT CLARENCE KING sea which is the great plains. METROPOLIS of BEAVERLAND \ HE visitor will not forget the aspens in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Their white trunks and branches and their luxuriant bright green foliage are never out of sight. I' A trail through an aspen thicket is a path of delight. Because of the unusual aspen growths, the region is the favored home of beavers, who make the tender bark their principal food. Beaver dams block countless streams and beaver houses emerge from the still ponds above. In some retired spots the engineering feats of gener­ ations of beaver families may be Photograph by Enos Mills traced in all their considerable range. BEAVER DAMS BLOCK COUNTLESS STREAMS Nowhere is the picturesqueness of timber-line more quickly and more easily seen. A horse after early breakfast, a steep mountain trail, an hour of unique enjoyment, and one may be back for late luncheon. Eleven thousand feet up, the winter struggles between trees and icy gales are grotesquely exhibited. The first sight of luxuriant En- gelman spruces creeping closely upon the ground instead of rising a hun­ dred and fifty feet straight and true as masts is not soon forgotten. Many stems strong enough to partly defy the winters' gales grow bent in half circles. Others, starting straight in shelter of some large rock, bend at right angles where they emerge above it. Many succeed in lifting their trunks but not in growing Copyright by IViswall Brothers, Denver branches except in their lee, thus sug­ AN ASPEN THICKET TRAIL IS A PATH OF gesting great evergreen dust brushes. Photograph by Enos Mills DELIGHT WIND-TWISTED TREES AT TIMBER-LINE fhotograpk by Enos Mills RECORDS OF THE GLACIERS FEATURE of this region is the read­ ability of its records of glacial action during the ages when America was making. In few other spots do these evidences, in all their variety, make themselves so prominent to the casual eye. There is scarcely any part of the eastern side where some enormous moraine does not force itself upon passing atten­ tion. One of the valley villages, Moraine Park, is so named from a moraine built out for miles across the valley's floor by an­ cient parallel glaciers. Scarcely less prominent is the long curving hill called the Mills Moraine, after Enos Mills, the naturalist, who is known in Colorado as "the father of the Rocky Mountain National Park." In short, this park is itself a primer of glacial geology whose simple, self-evident lessons im­ mediately disclose the key to one Copyright by Wiswall Brothers, Denver Photograph by H. T, Cowling FALL RIVER AT THE CLOSE OF DAY MOONLIGHT ON GRAND LAKE of nature's chiefest scenic secrets. 'SI L> O 2 o a O Q a en U > Q Q Wa o o a w< CO Photograph by Enos Mills - w "THE END OF THE TRAIL" CO CO CO cO s < a ^ H Z Jo g< z a - o *s o & g z cwj O Q < CO w W H z o w B < CO U a O -i cyQ UJ a H M Z .5 W "5 o o t-; « -«> -a. Photograph by George C. Barnard, Denver AN IDEAL COUNTRY FOR WINTER SPORTS THE NATIONAL PARKS AT A GLANCE Arranged chronologically in the order of their creation [Number, 14; Total Area, 7,290 Square Miles] AREA NATIONAL PARK in and Date LOCATION square DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS miles HOT SPRINGS RESER­ Middle iyi 46 hot springs possessing curative properties—Many hotels VATION Arkansas and boarding-houses in adjacent city of Hot Springs— 1832 bath-houses under public control.
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